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SNAFU with Ed Helms

Ivan Boesky: The Wall Street Legend Who Crashed and Burned (with Rory Scovel)

SNAFU with Ed Helms

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, History

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Rory Scovel is a man of opulence. But he won't let greed go to his head like the subject of today's SNAFU. Ed and Rory discuss a modern Wall Street legend: the story of Ivan Boesky, a wall street trader who turned Arbitrage into front page headlines, until it all came crashing down.

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0:00.0

It's very seldom I run into someone who I really think is just kind of a piece of shit.

0:06.7

Yeah.

0:06.8

For the most part, everybody's just at their job, whether they're wildly famous or not,

0:12.6

and they're just trying to do the job and then go home and hang out with their family.

0:17.8

It's just kind of our universal situation.

0:21.7

Well, you know what that means, Rory.

0:23.5

That means you're the piece of me.

0:27.2

Oh, my God, shit.

0:32.7

This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human.

0:43.9

Hello, and welcome to Snafu, your favorite podcast, about history's greatest screw-ups,

0:49.7

or, if we're being completely honest, a show about the spectacular hubris of humanity,

0:56.1

the epic disasters, it creates, and the lessons we like to pretend we can learn from them.

1:02.7

I'm your host Ed Helms, and my guest today is a very funny comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host.

1:08.8

He released his first comedy album, Dilation in 2011, and pumped out not one,

1:15.8

not three, but six different stand-up specials, the most recent of which religion, sex, and a few

1:24.0

things in between you can find on HBO Max. He's appeared in a variety of film and television programs with a particularly standout

1:32.5

performance opposite Rose Byrne in Apple TV's Physical, which is a fucking awesome show, by the way.

1:41.9

Nice.

1:42.2

Yes, indeed.

1:43.0

And he's set to appear in a new ABC show called Do You Want Kids?

1:48.4

And I think I also just saw a trailer that had you in it for my buddy Steve Carell's new show,

1:55.1

Rooster.

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